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Humble Games responds and confirms that whilst it is restructuring, it is not shutting down
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- Title
- Humble Games devs told "company is shutting down"
- Published
- Jul 23 2024
- Word count
- 202 words
Among many others, they're publishers of Wizard of Legend, Slay the Spire, A Hat in Time, TemTem, Signalis, Unpacking... Several high profile and well received indie games.
https://www.humblegames.com/games/
Jesus. I saw that it was just the publisher and kinda mentally thought "eh I don't think they've done that much" but boy was I wrong.
Hopefully the various sequels in production aren't harmed by this, or maybe they'd already jumped ship? I don't often pay attention to the publisher.
Wish they would make a sequel to Slay the Spire.
You're in luck!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2868840/Slay_the_Spire_2/
Oh my God. How did I miss this. This is stellar news!
Some previous discussion on Tildes too in case you missed it! :)
https://tildes.net/~games/1fja/slay_the_spire_2_reveal_trailer
Note, this is NOT Humble Bundle itself, it's their publishing arm, which is different. Might need to update this link as more official news outlets report on it!
meta:
@myckettforvirrad could/should we change the link/tags to an actual source?
This link has more context and refrences this tweet:
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/humble-games-devs-told-company-is-shutting-down
Done. 👍
I liked this version.
I'm not surprised there are humans who write press releases that look like they were written by AI. Where else would AI have learned to write like that?
Just updated:
Thanks for the update! Curse of breaking news early, I'm afraid, might need to have the title updated or something haha
How many employees did they have? 36 being laid off seems like a lot
Apparently, that was the entire company. Other soruces, such as this article, and Ryan Brown, say that there are no employees left at HG, and its been replaced by a third-party contractor "in-name-only"
double check the article because i'm not sure!
Cynic in me wants to add a word "yet".
Some sources are saying that the 'restructuring' is just PR-talk, and in-name only; they've replaced all employees with an outside third-party contractor, who in the words of another games journo Ryan Brown, "was hired to manage unreleased games + [back-catalog]... [Humble Games] no longer exists". Sad news for the employees of Humble Games. Apparently many of them found out they no longer had jobs from the news and press-release itself. Terrible.
A related update to this: https://www.eurogamer.net/humble-games-final-release-before-restructuring-has-launched-a-patreon-in-these-uncertain-times